Important Announcement!!! Please Read! (Patreon)
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Hello Everyone!
We have some unfortunate news to share. Patreon’s Trust & Safety Team sent us a notice last night that VIZ Media LLC and Aniplex of America Inc have claimed copyright infringement regarding materials associated with our account. We don’t seem to have many options at this time, and will likely be forced to delete a large number of posts from our Patreon page by March 23, otherwise our page may also be temporarily suspended. Before this due date, we are doing everything we can to avoid that. We are hoping to extend our deadline or submit a counter notice to this DMCA.
We also heard that we are not the only ones targeted by the same DCMA claim, and learned more information from creators we’re friends with. It appears that this claim is a bot generated mess that reported every post we made on this page that includes names of shows or even names of characters, and excludes any material that could be considered infringement. This is the case with our notice, as well as with notices received by other reaction channels. The notice we received is also lacking in terms of proper documentation, so we are requesting access to the full document as submitted by VIZ/Aniplex.
Since our hands are tied until this is resolved, we will have to temporarily un-publish contested links. And because VIZ/Aniplex acts as if even names of shows are copyrighted material, we can’t make daily updates the way we used to. So for now:
- Older content: If you’re looking for our older content, please use our website: https://thenormies.com/ Patreon galleries will be incomplete by the end of this week.
- New content: We will continue making posts here daily, but we will have to make certain adjustments (not using proper names of any of the shows that were claimed).
We apologize for this inconvenience. We will continue to keep you updated on the progression of this case.
Normies